Synthetic cathinones ('Bath Salts'): Legal and health care challenges

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Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 571-573

  Gershman, Jennifer A ^a   Fass, Andrea D ^a  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; BATH SALT; CATHINONE; LORAZEPAM; METHCATHINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACT; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANXIETY; BATH SALT INTOXICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DECREASED APPETITE; DELUSION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG INTOXICATION; EDITORIAL; ENTERITIS; EPISTAXIS; HALLUCINATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEGAL ASPECT; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE SPASM; PANIC; PARANOIA; SAFETY; SEIZURE; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867918423     PISSN: 10521372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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